Artist Picks: Velvet Acid Christ

Velvet Acid Christ
(As always, 2009 had VAC continuing to produce brilliantly crass dance beats with the release of The Art of Breaking Apart.)

A Place to Bury Strangers – “Keep Slipping Away”
It reminds me of all the old music I used to love in the 80s: New order and Bauhaus and The Cure and u2 when they were young. Catchy, frantic, fast, with energy.

Rome – “The Accidents of Gesture”
I love the lyrics. Heavy, philosophical, poetic, pretty, epic. I love how this song starts out quiet and pretty. It slowly builds and gets really intense and about half way through it starts to rock in a swaying dramatic way. I love his voice.

Baditude – “Osteophobia”
Sounds like 80s video game music. Love how old school Ministry and Revco it sounds. That song is about the fear of skeletons. Not only that Bad ass Halloween has a sample that says "Creature stole my Twinkie". My favorite party industrial band. So many hilarious fun songs. My all time favorite song by Baditude is “Punch a Christian in the Face.” Shit makes me laugh so hard.